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A recent series of terror attacks in Balochistan, a mineral-rich region of Pakistan struggling with a separatist insurg…

A wave of simultaneous gun attacks and suicide bombings targeting schools, banks and security installations in Pakistan…

The coordinated nature of the attacks and their scale expose the enormous security threats facing the region, according…

"These are extremely serious and significant attacks.

It was also one of the most violent days in Balochistan for quite some time," Kugelman told DW.

Sahar Baloch, a Berlin-based researcher focusing on Balochistan, echoed this view.

"These are not sporadic low-level incidents.

They are widespread, coordinated assaults across the province, indicating a higher operational tempo than seen in recen…

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Officials said Monday that 177 BLA fighters had been killed.

The provincial government has also imposed restrictions on public gatherings and concealing identity, such as through f…

Pakistan has said the BLA has received support from India, without providing evidence.

New Delhi rejected the allegations.

The charges, nevertheless, could escalate tensions between the two nuclear-armed archrivals who engaged in their worst …

Local grievances and rising violence Balochistan is the largest and poorest province in Pakistan.

The mountainous, mineral-rich region of the South Asian country has a dry desert climate and is sparsely populated.

It's a hub for the ethnic Baloch minority, whose members say they face discrimination and exploitation by the central g…

The tensions have fueled a separatist insurgency seeking greater autonomy, or even independence for Balochistan, and a …

Authorities have violently suppressed such demands for decades.

The BLA is the strongest armed faction dominated by ethnic Baloch separatist groups.

BLA militants routinely target Pakistani security forces and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multibillio…

Data compiled by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, a non profit registered in the United States, shows …

Kugelman said the growing violence is more troubling as Balochistan is already a heavily militarized region.

"Pakistan's military is very entrenched there, and I would argue that the scale, scope, and sophistication of these att…

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The group has shown that it can coordinate and launch simultaneous attacks across the province, causing both military a…

"The danger lies in its capacity to persist, exploit grievances, and sustain cycles of violence that drain resources an…

Nevertheless, she pointed out, the high number of militants killed in counteroperations suggests that "Pakistan's secur…

" Pakistan: What's behind the Balochistan armed insurgency?

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Pakistan has so far opted to put an end to the Baloch insurgency using military means, but it hasn't worked, Kugelman s…

He argued that Islamabad should instead engage in dialogue and resolve the underlying grievances.

"The deep-seated grievances that animate this insurgency have contributed to boosting recruitment for the insurgents ov…

"I think the issue could be tackled with dialogue, which would entail representatives from the Pakistani state hearing …

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